Man, 18, takes snapchat and attacks emergency workers

Snapchat drug victim with marks on hands and wrists from fighting and falling and being strapped to a bed in hospital.Source: News Limited

A USER of the dangerous party drug snapchat has woken in hospital, strapped to a bed and covered in cuts and tubes, with a doctor telling him there were a lot of ambos and hospital staff downstairs waiting for an apology.

Snapchat drug victim.Source: News Limited

The 18-year-old, whom NT News has decided not to identify, couldn’t remember a thing after causing havoc in Royal Darwin Hospital on Friday evening.

But he can remember the moments after he and some friends split a $35 pink snapchat pill in a Palmerston house.

“I woke up on Saturday and my arms were tied down and my legs were tied down,” he said. “My arms and wrists and knuckles were cut.

“I had tubes going into my arms, my leg, my mouth, and my stomach. I was apparently very aggressive to the cops and the ambulance people.

“It makes you very violent.

“The other guy I took it with, I ended up punching on with him on the front lawn – two best mates, punching on.”

The roofer said he would never take snapchat again – but failed to rule out taking drugs in the future.

“I thought I was going to die that night,” he said. “I’m only a little fella and I heard some guys in hospital were big boys.

“If anyone on the street – say a 15-year-old – took it, they’d die.” He said there were potentially still hundreds of the pills on Top End streets – and mentioned one Top End night spot which NT News has decided not to name, but of which police are aware.

He was discharged after almost three days in hospital.

He apologised to the police and St John Ambulance.

“I wouldn’t want to see anything in the newspaper about someone dying over it or something serious happening over it,” he said. “It’s not a good thing. There’s definitely no way I’d ever take that drug again.”

This was his second time in hospital after taking drugs. The last time, he was 15 years old.

“Before that I was like any other teenager – I’d take whatever I could,” he said.